What techniques are needed for growing Chinese medicinal herbs?

Nowadays, a wave of herb cultivation has risen in rural areas. Facing the complex and ever-changing Chinese medicinal herb market, farmer friends need to understand the techniques of herb cultivation: study the market carefully, gather information from multiple angles, have a sense of risk, and be mentally prepared for both success and failure.

1. Choose varieties that avoid difficulty and favor ease Many herb growers are eager to get rich and often choose high-priced medicinal herbs (such as Cordyceps sinensis, saffron, medicinal jujube, and other varieties) as their project. In fact, these herbs each have their own unique growing environment, and they are very difficult to grow in places where the environment is unsuitable. Moreover, these herbs have strict cultivation technical requirements, and the probability of success for ordinary people is very small. If it is not cultivation by research institutions or large-scale breeding bases, but only personal trial planting, it is best not to introduce such varieties, so as to avoid throwing in high costs. If you are growing medicinal herbs for the first time, you should be even more inclined to choose varieties that are suitable for local cultivation, have strong vitality, and are relatively easy to grow and manage. Although such herbs are lower in price, the success rate is higher. The planting area should be based on your means.

2. The size of the planting area, you must consider your own manpower, material resources, and financial resources. Growing medicinal herbs brings large returns, but the investment is also large, and the risk is also great. If you are jointly contracting land with several people to grow herbs, have sufficient manpower and financial resources, and have successful experience yourself or have relevant professionals to guide you, the planting area can be larger. The more herbs there are, the greater the attraction to pharmaceutical factory buyers or herb dealers, and they can directly go to the production area to purchase and transport the goods. If your funds are limited, you should start with a small area and sell the products nearby to medicinal herb purchasing departments or specialized markets. After you have growing experience, then expand the planting scale.

3. Do not chase prices, but revolve around the market. Most herb growers have this mentality: plant when prices rise, not when they fall. But the prices of medicinal herbs are not unchanging. When prices rise, everyone goes to plant, and by harvest time the high price often turns into a low price, creating a phenomenon of profit one year and loss the next. When the price of a medicinal herb falls, no one plants it, so its price is bound to rise. If you can grasp the trend of price changes in the medicinal herb market and grow those herbs that few people plant and whose prices are temporarily low, then when the time comes you will certainly obtain an unexpectedly good harvest.

4. Grow locally superior medicinal herbs Because the natural environment varies from place to place, the quality of the medicinal herbs produced also differs. Generally speaking, local superior products are most likely to be favored by pharmaceutical factories and herb merchants. So you should first make clear which medicinal herbs are locally superior varieties, and then choose to grow them. In this way, you need not worry about sales channels, and you can also sell them at a good price.

5. Seize the opportunity to sellHerb growers generally rush to find sales channels after harvesting the herbs, worrying that the products cannot be sold. In fact, medicinal herbs, like other commodities, will see prices decline when large quantities come onto the market right after harvest, so selling at this time will certainly not get a good price. If you carry out preliminary processing after harvesting the herbs and store them well, then sell them at the appropriate time after prices rise, you can obtain higher profits.

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